Dead Horse Point State Park - UT

This afternoon we decided to visit Dead Horse Point, which is by the north entrance to Canyonlands National Park. We drove by it in May, but didn't take the time to visit. I'm so glad that we did today. Not only was it another beautiful day, the view was fantastic. It was a little hazy, but I think I still got some good pictures.

The legend of the canyon is this: According to one legend, the point was once used as a corral for wild mustangs roaming the mesa. Cowboys rounded up these horses, herded them across the narrow neck of land and onto the point. The neck, which is only 30 yards wide, was then fenced off with branches and brush, creating a natural corral surrounded by precipitous cliffs. Cowboys then chose the horses they wanted and for reasons unknown, left the other horses corralled on the waterless point where they died of thirst within view of the Colorado River, 2,000 feet below.

Notice on the next to the last picture the rocks lining the road. That is suppose to keep cars from falling off the edge! It's pretty narrow there. The last picture shows the fence that they used to keep the horses corralled. It's about 5' high.

Remember, if you double click on the pictures, they will become bigger. I noticed on mine that the first double click makes the picture half screen size. Then if I click on the picture again, it becomes full size.

Canyonland Nat'l Park, South Entrance

The first picture was taken on May 7 when we went to the Canyonland North Entrance. It shows the kind of place that we were in today, in the south part. I tried to include pictures of many different parts of the park that we were in today. Several feature clouds, sunshine, colors, layers of rock, a 'shoe' rock and two show going under a rock from both directions on the road. We had a wonderful time. The day was perfect, weather included.

Newspaper Rock Nat'l Historical Site

We enjoyed reading the newspaper this morning. I'm wondering if they put the last sign up before or after the Indian's wrote on this rock and if it was after, did they arrest them?

October 28 Moab, UT

The landscape is so unique in Utah. Big rocks just pop out of nowhere. A person could spend months just going through the National Parks. Tomorrow we are going to the south end of Canyonlands. I'm excited.

I couldn't help but taking some picture today. I know that I've shared with you pictures from Monument Valley last year, so I didn't put them on again. This time I'm just putting a couple on the road from there to Moab. I love the sunshine on the first picture and the lines in the rock on a couple others. Those snowy mountains are looking into Colorado. Tomorrow you will see more than you ever wanted, probably.

October 27 Kayenta, Arizona

We saw on the news this morning that the Dakota's have been having a lot of snow. That's where we would have been now if we'd gone south first. God always blesses our trips in so many ways. We'll never know all the ways.

The road leaving Cortez to Monument Valley is so rough. When I leaned my head back, the bumps just tossed it around. I couldn't read my book for awhile.

I love coming to Monument Valley. It's the only time I get to see my cousin, Joyce. I never even knew her before we started coming here. I may have met her twice before that.

One of the customers told a couple others that if they wanted to know about any of the books we carry, just ask me since I've read most of them and know all about them. That seems like a good kind of reputation to have. I don't know all of them, but I do quite a few. I love to read.

We had to drive back into Arizona to get a motel. It was about 25 miles, verses 75 or so to the next town big enough to have a motel in Utah. We don't like to do too much night driving especially around here, as there is so much open range. You never know what animals will be on the road.

October 26 Cortez, CO

It's only about an hour from Durango to Cortez, so it was another easy day. We had a good sale tonight. The people are so nice.

It's really cooling down at night. The days aren't too bad.

October 25 Durango, CO

It's getting cold. Tonight it was 34 degrees at 8:00. There's lots of new snow in the mountains.

Today was just the opposite of most of the other days we have. We got here around 12:30. The motel upgraded us to a suite. Next door is a restaurant. We've eaten there before, good food. So after lunch we went back to our room, with nothing to do. I read and Jim paid our bills on the computer. Felt funny not working.

We thought we would get to the Church early for our 6:00 sale. They have road construction, same as 6 months ago. The GPS took us a long, wrong way to the Church. A 5 - 10 minute drive took about 25 minutes. We did get there and we had a nice sale, our best here yet.

Mrs. Schultz is always our first customer. She just had her 90th birthday less than a month ago. She's looking good, gets around great and was upset because she couldn't remember our names. But she did know who we are. I've known her since I was 13.

October 24 Farmington, NM

I think this is the first Sunday this trip that we only had one sale. But we were still busy all day. It's 8:00 PM now, I just finished my work. Jim still has to scan the daily cash-ups for this week and send it to the Press.

Last night I sent out 15 emails to classes of alumni. This morning all of them came back. The computer locked up last night and had other problems. I feel like I wasted my time last night.

Aztec Ruins National Monument

After Church we went over to the Aztec Ruins. We went a couple years ago, but decided that it was worth another trip. It was a beautiful day to be outside.

Actually I ended up taking more pictures of the fall colors and the sky then I did the Ruins.